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I could craft an entire scrapbook JUST from things I’ve learned and things I love about my friend Ilise Benun. One of the things she taught me to see different was…my own value, and why that was different from what I was “worth.” Because, of course, no one can tell you what you’re “worth.” They…

Wait, before you answer that. Let me ask you this: Where were you when you first heard of YouTube? The platform launched in 2005. I was working as an associate editor at Body+Soul magazine and YouTube was something I heard a few other editors laughing about over a cubicle wall. “Oh, it’s stupid,” my editor…

Your work is less a line drawing, and more like one of those Magic Eye posters from the 90s. You know the ones—they looked like a random, digitized page of color blocks and blips. But when you put your nose right up to it, and let your eyes refocus, BOOM! Dolphins leaping through the sea,…

I held on to my virginity so long I forgot what I was saving it for. It’s true.  I was a BIT of a late bloomer.  And while everyone should move at their own pace (and slower, if need be), especially when it comes to your body and whom you let close to it, it’s…

There’s something very elite and cool about specialists. Just requiring one almost makes you special. Like stylists who specialize in cutting curly hair. Or matchmakers who exclusively work with Virgos (if it’s not a thing, it should be). That’s cool. But. Does it mean YOU have to choose one thing to do and be forever…

They say if you’re going to believe your good reviews, you’re going to have to believe the bad ones, too. They also say there’s no such thing as bad press. They say a lot of things. I might be a lifelong writer, but I am a first-time author, in a competitive space (is there one…

“Everything takes longer than we want.”  That’s what Dorie Clark told me when I interviewed her during my Summer Camp series in July 2021, and as much as we might pretend this isn’t true, it 100% is.  We’d like to think otherwise. You think, “this shouldn’t be hard.” Your clients promise you that this project…

Do you think of yourself as being “stuck?” Why do I ask? Because I hear it ALL the time. And I think we can all relate to the idea of “stuck,” because we say it a lot. And whenever we all start saying something, I start questioning it. ARE we actually stuck? Or do we…

I read this recently and it’s my favorite new quote. “What if there was no such thing as a writer? What if everyone simply wrote?” Julia Cameron poses that question in her book The Right to Write. I love it because it strips away the ego and identity from writing and simply positions it for…

I wouldn’t suspect you have—noticed my teeth, that is. No one gives a hoot about them. But I do. Not only has it gotten more crowded in there, it occurs to me that my teeth deserve better. What was the point of all that pain and discomfort with braces back in the late 80s if I’m going…